On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 10:39:19PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:00:32PM +0200, Dawid Kuroczko wrote: > > Hello. :-) > > > > I did manage to make pseudo-transparent menus, but now I'd like > > to make something more "real". What I'd like to do is to have > > something like there is in KDE. > > > > It should work like this: > > 1. user clicks thus calling a Menu. > > 2. current screen dump is taken (with all the windows, but > > without a menu just as yet). > > 3. this screen dump is made available to Menu as > > root background pixmap. > > 4. Menu is displayed with tinted real background. > > > > This way it's pretty easy to make an illusion of real > > transparency (and looks "l33t", as some may say). > > > > Here a new version of the patch for current cvs/snapshot. > This patch add a new options to Colorset: Translucent/NoTranslucent. > These options has effects only with (non tear-off) menu. > Also menu animation is "handled". > > For example with: > > Colorset 5 fg yellow, bg blue, HGradient 200 lightblue darkblue, \ > Translucent blue 60 > Style * MenuColorset 5, PopupOffset 0 100, AnimationOff > > you get translucent menus (with a 60% blue tint) and if you tear-off > a menu the menu use the gradient. >
Moreover, it is a good idea to start the X server with BackingStore enabled. With XFree86 4.x, BackingStore is disabled by default, to enable BackingStore you should use the "+bs" option when you start your X server. Regards, Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
